Bug#542686: libcompress-zlib-perl: uninstallable with Perl 5.10.1, needs to be removed

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:44:51PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:49:42 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > > > It seems clear to me that this package has to be removed, possibly in
> > > > favour of libio-compress-perl if we want to keep that as a separate
> > > > package (see #538214).

> > However, a separate
> > 2.020 is going to be obsoleted very soon by perl 5.10.1 so it might not
> > be worth it before 2.021.
> 
> But it would help us to get rid of the four other packages, which
> would make things easier, no?

I don't see much difference, the versioned reverse dependencies of those
need to be changed in both cases or perl 5.10.1 will break them.

As the libio-compress-perl package can be introduced without rendering
the old packages uninstallable, I suppose it would make the transition
a bit smoother (assuming it passes NEW before 5.10.1 gets in sid :)
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